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It's a 'Collage of Brass'
Fred Heath has designed a recital program that ranges over the wide repertoire of compositions for brass instruments. He will perform on trombone, tuba and euphonium during a Minsky Recital Hall concert on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m..
Among the composers and works featured on the program are: First Movement, Concerto for Trombone by Gordon Jacob; Elegy for Mippy II by Leonard Bernstein, Suite for Unaccompanied Tuba by Walter Hartley and Sonata in Aminor by Antonio Vivaldi. Compositions by J.S. Bach, Phillipe Gaubert, Vasely Lebedev, and Friedebald Grafe are also programmed.
Heath will be accompanied by Alison Moore, who earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in music from UMaine. It is their first collaboration. Moore presently teaches at the School of Performing Arts and accompanies the University Singers.
A performance by a brass ensemble of leading area musicians rounds out the recital program. Playing with the ensemble are: Brett Vicary, Timothy Hall on trumpets; Beth Zdrojowy, Don Menninghaus, Dan Flagg on trombones.
Fred Heath has served on the University of Maine faculty since 1974. As a low brass performer, he has performed with the Interlochen Honors Orchestra, the National Intercollegiate Band, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. With the University of Michigan Band, he performed widely, including appearances at New York City's Carnegie Hall and in the former Soviet Union. Since coming to Maine, Fred Heath has performed on brass instruments or conducted in over 50 Maine communities.
University of Maine Orchestra's Autumn Concert
Sung-Rai Sohn, first violinist with the Laurentian Quartet and concertmaster of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, will be the guest conductor when the University of Maine Orchestra presents its autumn concert Sunday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., in Minsky Recital Hall. Presently a professor at Sarah Lawrence College and conductor of the Sarah Lawrence Orchestra, Sung-Rai Sohn will also conduct master classes in violin study while in residence at UMaine.
Featured on the Orchestra's concert program are: Schubert's The Unfinished Symphony; Mozart's Symphony #25 in G minor (familiar to audiences as the opening musical score of the film Amadeus); Bartok's Romanian Dances; and Andriasov's Musical Sketches.
Professor Anatole Wieck conducts the University Orchestra.